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I have found as I get older I prefer cheap store brand cola. Probably because it mixes better with booze. Or Throwback Pepsi (no high fructose cor syrup) or Mexican Coke (same deal).

But growing up in Texas we called everything "coke". You'd order a coke and they'd ask you what kind (when I was a kid it was usually Dr. Pepper). When I moved up here the northwest I have noticed that Pepsi seems more common.

Coke, coke, coke. Love Coke, the original, with real sugar, in an aluminum can or glass bottle, never from plastic. I was getting a fat ass, so I had to cut down to a can or two a week. But I love it, love it, love it.

Pepsi has bought up exclusive rights at a lot of public facilities, particularly airports, and you can't get Coke anywhere there. I hate that. If a server says the establishment carries only Pepsi, I politely ask for a glass of seltzer instead.

Coke. And not just because I live in Atlanta...I just honest to God cannot stand the taste of Pepsi. Of course, my drink of choice is something Coke put out for a limited run in the US (however is apparently quite successful in Europe)...Coke Blak - a mixture of coffee and coke. (and yes, I'm a caffeine hound) Before you gag, it's really quite good...but at 4$ a bottle in the US, didn't quite make it)

Neither, all sodas, even diet, are poison and should come with warning labels just like cigarettes. I occasionally splurge on real ginger ale, which is not cheap and very hard to find. Really need to learn how to make my own.

Diet Coke over Diet Pepsi any day of the week, although I prefer Fresca to either of those, but I don't drink soda anymore unless I'm at a restaurant. I usually drink iced tea or sometimes seltzer/sparkling water with lemon or lime.

I live off Homemade sugar free lemonade or strawberry lemonade all summer long(I use truvia,real lemon juice,crushed ice or frozen strawberries and club soda).I also like the mio type flavors in seltzer water. Even better,taking kool aid powder and mixing it with liquid monk fruit sweetener,then stirring into seltzer water.

I have recipes for home made ginger ale, but I guess I can't figure out how they are measuring the ginger (by weight? by shredding and packing into a measuring cup?)Nothing I've made so far tasted right. I'll probably get back into this summer and give it a try. If I ever get it right I want to mix it with green tea, that Green Tea Ginger Ale was the last soda I drank and it was delicious (probably because of all the sugar). :)

If it has to be one or the other, Coke--Pepsi is way too sweet for me, although I do admit to liking Dr. Pepper. Most of the time, though, I stick with ginger ale when I'm out somewhere (it's my go-to drink instead of booze in bars); at home I make iced tea the way I like it (which is NOT the way they make it down south--sweet tea is way too damn sweet for me!). I steep 7-8 tea bags in a 2-quart pot of boiling water for about 5 minutes, add equal parts sugar & lemon juice (1/2 cup each), let it cool, and then funnel it into a clean plastic gallon jug, filling up the jug w/cold water. Aaaaaahhh... :-)

Never driver soda anymore but when I did it wad diet Pepsi. I loved Cheerwine when I was growing up I'm NC (you should be able to find that there Reeses) but the last time I went home I got one after bragging to the Opster about how great it was. It was so bloody sweet I tossed it.

Now I prefer iced tea with honey and for fizzy, club soda with a squeeze of Meyer lemon.